ACIM Workbook lesson #50:
“I am sustained by the Love of God.”
Love with a capital "L", love so pure that it just IS, seems impossible when thought of with all the caveats we place on human feelings and emotions. Once again, this Love is something animals are helping us to experience. Their loving looks are pure in ways which our human love often seems to lack. I look to my dog(s) to show me the way to express and feel the Love that is God. In order to recognize that "I am sustained by the Love of God", I must give up all previous notions of what love is. I certainly want to. I want to know this Love that is God and allow it to sustain me constantly, not just when I don't know what to do and reach out in desperation. A taste of It is all it takes for me to want to throw off the shackles and swim in a sea of all-sustaining Love. May the eyes of a beloved dog remind me of that.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"Psalm XXIII
[DIVINE LOVE] is my shepherd; I shall not want. [LOVE] maketh me to lie down in green pastures: [LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters. [LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]: [LOVE] leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me; [LOVE'S] rod and [LOVE'S] staff they comfort me. [LOVE] prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: [LOVE] anointeth my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [LOVE] for ever.
Science & Health" Page 578: 3-18
